CJ Pony Parts Scholarship Contest Winners

Every year, CJ Pony Parts offers two $500 scholarships to students who will be attending college next semester. We host a video contest each semester and select the best video as the winner.

Students are asked to create a short video using one of these topics:

What it means to live in America

My first memory of a Mustang

How the auto industry changed America

What a Mustang teaches me about life

How a Mustang relates to your field of study

Every semester we have an abundance of amazing videos come from some extremely talented and creative students! This made it very difficult to pick a winner. However, there is always one that stands out from the rest. Check out the past winning entries below!

Fall 2017 Winner: Jermaine Johnson II

This fall, we had a ton of great submissions for the CJ Pony Parts scholarship video content which led to a very difficult time of narrowing all of the submissions down to one. However, one video in particular shined above the rest! Meet Jermaine who is from Detroit, Michigan and currently studying abroad in South Africa. Mr. Johnson put together a creative poem talking about his plans over the next 30 years. Listen in for yourself!

Spring 2017 Winner: Nathan Kalana

As every semester goes by, it seems we get more and more great video submissions flooding in for the CJ's Video Scholarship Contest. We chose Nathan's submission after seeing the passion he has behind Mustangs and cars overall. The kind of will and drive that Nathan shows in his 1965 Mustang build paired with his upcoming education at UTI will take him far doing something that he loves - building cars. Hats off to Nathan! [Video no longer available.]

Spring 2017 Featured Submissions: Andrew J. & Mike S.

Although we chose Nathan's video submission for the Spring 2017 round of entries, we couldn't let Andrew and Mike's submissions go unnoticed. Check out these comical video submissions!

A big thanks to everyone who sent in submissions for the Spring 2017. We thoroughly enjoyed viewing each and every one of them! For those who didn't win this time around, feel free to send in another submission for Fall 2017!

Fall 2016 Winner: Jennifer Bolaski

For the Fall 2016 semester, we had more entries than ever before for the CJ Pony Parts Video Scholarship Contest. However, Jennifer Bolaski's video stood out from the rest. Between her Mustangs Blue Ford and Blue Ford II and passion for her education in becoming a School Counselor, it really was a no-brainer! You can check out her video below. Congrats, Jennifer!

As for the rest of the submissions for Fall 2016, it was an incredibly tough decision. Thank you to all those who submitted and if you didn't win this semester, there will always be another shot next semester! Good luck and we look forward to seeing your submissions!

Spring 2016 Winner: Mustang Music by Shelbie Rassler

Shelbie Rassler made an entire piece of music using ONLY sounds from a Mustang. She did this to show how a Mustang relates to her field of study, which is music. Here’s what she said about her video:

“As a musician, I thought it would be really interesting and exciting to create an entire piece of music solely out of sounds I recorded from a Mustang. These included hitting the tires for a bass drum, rattling the keys for a snare drum, the blinker as a hit hat, the beeping seatbelt warning as the melody, the low rumble of the engine as the main bass line, and other sound effects such as closing the car door and trunk, the moving of the windshield wipers, and turning over the engine. I then used the music editing software Logic Pro X to trim the sounds and organize them, resulting in the piece you are about to hear!”

What a creative and cool idea! Not to mention, it turned out to be a pretty cool song from a great-looking car. Congrats to Shelbie — no relation to Shelby Mustang designer Carroll Shelby, I’m sure — for winning the CJ Pony Parts scholarship from this amazing video!

Fall 2015 Winner: Matthew Pryor

We had a lot of great submissions for the Fall 2015 semester, but there was no doubt that the work and creativity shining from Matthew's video made it rise to the top of the stack. Matthew's video is on "What It Means To Be An American." With a whimsical approach to this contest, Matthew nailed it with his video - check it out!

How To Apply

Are you a college student or do you know one who’s looking for a scholarship? You can apply for the CJ Pony Parts Video Contest Scholarship right here! The deadlines are April 15 and October 15 every year, so make sure you get your video ready for the next one. You might just be the next winner.